I have a function (lets call it function A) that 0 to many threads can access it (at the same time, no shared resources). At any given time, the user can use to stop the process. The stop functionality needs to make sure that there are threads accessing function A, so that a graceful shutdown can be performed. Is there a native procedure to do so?
What I was going to do is have an InterlockedIncrement an integer everytime function A is called (and a corresponding InterlockedDecrement on said integer when function A exists). When an InterlockedDecrement takes place, it checks the value of the integer, if it's set to zero, a event is set to signalled. If the value is not zero, the event is set to nonsignalled.
This makes sense in my mind, but I'm curious whether there is a more native structure / functionality adapted to do so.
I still have to thing about the fact the "stop" function may get starved (in the sense, the said integer may never be set to zero). A sidenote: when the stop event takes place, the InterlockedIncrement process shall be stopped, to reduce said starvation.
what you need and want implement is called Run-Down Protection. unfortunately it supported only in kernel mode, but not hard implement it yourself in user mode too.
the simplest implementation is next:
HANDLE ghStopEvent;
LONG gLockCount = 1;
BOOLEAN bStop = FALSE;
void unlock()
{
if (!InterlockedDecrement(&gLockCount)) SetEvent(ghStopEvent);
}
BOOL lock()
{
LONG Value = gLockCount, NewValue;
for ( ; !bStop && Value; Value = NewValue)
{
NewValue = InterlockedCompareExchange(&gLockCount, Value + 1, Value);
if (NewValue == Value) return TRUE;
}
return FALSE;
}
void funcA();
void UseA()
{
if (lock())
{
funcA();
unlock();
}
}
and when you want begin rundown - once call
bStop = TRUE; unlock();
how you can see lock function is interlocked increment gLockCount on 1 but only if it not 0.
in kernel mode you can call instead
EX_RUNDOWN_REF gRunRef;
void UseA()
{
if (ExAcquireRundownProtection(&gRunRef))
{
funcA();
ExReleaseRundownProtection(&gRunRef)
}
}
and on place final unlock - ExWaitForRundownProtectionRelease
some more complex and scalable implementation of rundown-protection:
#define RUNDOWN_INIT_VALUE 0x80000000
#define RUNDOWN_COMPLETE_VALUE 0
class __declspec(novtable) RUNDOWN_REF
{
LONG _LockCount;
protected:
virtual void RundownCompleted() = 0;
public:
BOOL IsRundownBegin()
{
return 0 <= _LockCount;
}
void Reinit()
{
if (InterlockedCompareExchange(&_LockCount, RUNDOWN_INIT_VALUE, RUNDOWN_COMPLETE_VALUE) != RUNDOWN_COMPLETE_VALUE)
{
__debugbreak();
}
}
RUNDOWN_REF()
{
_LockCount = RUNDOWN_INIT_VALUE;
}
BOOL AcquireRundownProtection()
{
LONG Value = _LockCount, NewValue;
for ( ; Value < 0; Value = NewValue)
{
NewValue = InterlockedCompareExchange(&_LockCount, Value + 1, Value);
if (NewValue == Value) return TRUE;
}
return FALSE;
}
void ReleaseRundownProtection()
{
if (RUNDOWN_COMPLETE_VALUE == InterlockedDecrement(&_LockCount))
{
RundownCompleted();
}
}
void BeginRundown()
{
if (AcquireRundownProtection())
{
_interlockedbittestandreset(&_LockCount, 31);
ReleaseRundownProtection();
}
}
};
and use it like:
class MY_RUNDOWN_REF : public RUNDOWN_REF
{
HANDLE _hEvent;
virtual void RundownCompleted()
{
SetEvent(_hEvent);
}
// ...
} gRunRef;
void UseA()
{
if (gRunRef.AcquireRundownProtection())
{
funcA();
gRunRef.ReleaseRundownProtection();
}
}
and when you want stop:
gRunRef.BeginRundown();// can be safe called multiple times
// wait on gRunRef._hEvent here
interesting that in kernel exist else one (more old - from win2000, when rundown protection from xp) api Remove Locks. it do almost the same. different only in internal implementation and usage. with remove locks code will be look like this:
IO_REMOVE_LOCK gLock;
void UseA()
{
if (0 <= IoAcquireRemoveLock(&gLock, 0))
{
funcA();
IoReleaseRemoveLock(&gLock, 0);
}
}
and when we want stop - call
IoAcquireRemoveLock(&gLock, 0);
IoReleaseRemoveLockAndWait(&gLock, 0);
my first code spinet by implementation near remove locks implementation, when second near rundown-protection implementation. but by sense both do the same
i seem to have a nullPointerException without any reason, could you please review piece of my code and tell me your opinion?
This is the class and the constructor that i am calling on another class in order to get a label randomly (using the shuffle, which is randomizing as well) from a linked list.
here is the
public class RandomHeuristic {
GameInterface game;
JLabel randomLabel;
public JLabel RandomHeuristic() {
randomLabel = (JLabel) game.labels.getFirst();
int counter = 0;
do {
Collections.shuffle(game.labels);
randomLabel = (JLabel) game.labels.getFirst();
counter++;
if (counter == 100) {
break;
}
/*
* Debugging
* System.out.println(randomLabel.getText());
*/
} while (randomLabel != null && game.isLegalMove(randomLabel) == false);
//Retrieves and removes the head (first element) of this list.
if(randomLabel == null){
RandomHeuristic();
}
//game.labels.remove(randomLabel);
return randomLabel;
}
}
And here is where i am calling the constructor, the playHeuristicMove() is expecting a JLabel i checked it on debugging that is working correctly, though i still get a nullPointer Exception when i call it. randomHeuristicOne is created on the same class like this: RandomHeuristic randomHeuristicOne;
playHeuristicMove(randomHeuristicOne.RandomHeuristic());
Perhaps you want to take a look at your game GameInterface object it seems it's never been instantiated
I have a series of QTextEdits and QLineEdits connected to a slot through a QSignalMapper(which emits a textChanged(QWidget*) signal). When the connected slot is called (pasted below), I need to be able to differentiate between the two so I know whether to call the text() or toPlainText() function. What's the easiest way to determine the subclass type of a QWidget?
void MainWindow::changed(QWidget *sender)
{
QTextEdit *temp = qobject_cast<QTextEdit *>(sender);
QString currentText = temp->toPlainText(); // or temp->text() if its
// a QLineEdit...
if(currentText.compare(""))
{
...
}
else
{
...
}
}
I was considering using try-catch but Qt doesn't seem to have very extensive support for Exceptions... Any ideas?
Actually, your solution is already almost there. In fact, qobject_cast will return NULL if it can't perform the cast. So try it on one of the classes, if it's NULL, try it on the other:
QString text;
QTextEdit *textEdit = qobject_cast<QTextEdit*>(sender);
QLineEdit *lineEdit = qobject_cast<QLineEdit*>(sender);
if (textEdit) {
text = textEdit->toPlainText();
} else if (lineEdit) {
text = lineEdit->text();
} else {
// Return an error
}
You can also use sender->metaObject()->className() so you won't make unnecesary casts. Specially if you have a lot of classes to test. The code will be like this:
QString text;
QString senderClass = sender->metaObject()->className();
if (senderClass == "QTextEdit") {
QTextEdit *textEdit = qobject_cast<QTextEdit*>(sender);
text = textEdit->toPlainText();
} else if (senderClass == "QLineEdit") {
QLineEdit *lineEdit = qobject_cast<QLineEdit*>(sender);
text = lineEdit->text();
} else {
// Return an error
}
I know is an old question but I leave this answer just in case it would be useful for somebody...
I am getting some errors thrown in my code when I open a Windows Forms form in Visual Studio's designer. I would like to branch in my code and perform a different initialization if the form is being opened by designer than if it is being run for real.
How can I determine at run-time if the code is being executed as part of designer opening the form?
if (System.ComponentModel.LicenseManager.UsageMode == System.ComponentModel.LicenseUsageMode.Designtime)
{
// Design time logic
}
To find out if you're in "design mode":
Windows Forms components (and controls) have a DesignMode property.
Windows Presentation Foundation controls should use the IsInDesignMode attached property.
The Control.DesignMode property is probably what you're looking for. It tells you if the control's parent is open in the designer.
In most cases it works great, but there are instances where it doesn't work as expected. First, it doesn't work in the controls constructor. Second, DesignMode is false for "grandchild" controls. For example, DesignMode on controls hosted in a UserControl will return false when the UserControl is hosted in a parent.
There is a pretty easy workaround. It goes something like this:
public bool HostedDesignMode
{
get
{
Control parent = Parent;
while (parent!=null)
{
if(parent.DesignMode) return true;
parent = parent.Parent;
}
return DesignMode;
}
}
I haven't tested that code, but it should work.
The most reliable approach is:
public bool isInDesignMode
{
get
{
System.Diagnostics.Process process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess();
bool res = process.ProcessName == "devenv";
process.Dispose();
return res;
}
}
The most reliable way to do this is to ignore the DesignMode property and use your own flag that gets set on application startup.
Class:
public static class Foo
{
public static bool IsApplicationRunning { get; set; }
}
Program.cs:
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Foo.IsApplicationRunning = true;
// ... code goes here ...
}
Then just check the flag whever you need it.
if(Foo.IsApplicationRunning)
{
// Do runtime stuff
}
else
{
// Do design time stuff
}
I had the same problem in Visual Studio Express 2013. I tried many of the solutions suggested here but the one that worked for me was an answer to a different thread, which I will repeat here in case the link is ever broken:
protected static bool IsInDesigner
{
get { return (Assembly.GetEntryAssembly() == null); }
}
The devenv approach stopped working in VS2012 as the designer now has its own process. Here is the solution I am currently using (the 'devenv' part is left there for legacy, but without VS2010 I am not able to test that though).
private static readonly string[] _designerProcessNames = new[] { "xdesproc", "devenv" };
private static bool? _runningFromVisualStudioDesigner = null;
public static bool RunningFromVisualStudioDesigner
{
get
{
if (!_runningFromVisualStudioDesigner.HasValue)
{
using (System.Diagnostics.Process currentProcess = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess())
{
_runningFromVisualStudioDesigner = _designerProcessNames.Contains(currentProcess.ProcessName.ToLower().Trim());
}
}
return _runningFromVisualStudioDesigner.Value;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Are we in design mode?
/// </summary>
/// <returns>True if in design mode</returns>
private bool IsDesignMode() {
// Ugly hack, but it works in every version
return 0 == String.CompareOrdinal(
"devenv.exe", 0,
Application.ExecutablePath, Application.ExecutablePath.Length - 10, 10);
}
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached
It's hack-ish, but if you're using VB.NET and when you're running from within Visual Studio My.Application.Deployment.CurrentDeployment will be Nothing, because you haven't deployed it yet. I'm not sure how to check the equivalent value in C#.
using (System.Diagnostics.Process process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess())
{
bool inDesigner = process.ProcessName.ToLower().Trim() == "devenv";
return inDesigner;
}
I tried the above code (added a using statement) and this would fail on some occasions for me. Testing in the constructor of a usercontrol placed directly in a form with the designer loading at startup. But would work in other places.
What worked for me, in all locations is:
private bool isDesignMode()
{
bool bProcCheck = false;
using (System.Diagnostics.Process process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess())
{
bProcCheck = process.ProcessName.ToLower().Trim() == "devenv";
}
bool bModeCheck = (System.ComponentModel.LicenseManager.UsageMode == System.ComponentModel.LicenseUsageMode.Designtime);
return bProcCheck || DesignMode || bModeCheck;
}
Maybe a bit overkill, but it works, so is good enough for me.
The success in the example noted above is the bModeCheck, so probably the DesignMode is surplus.
You check the DesignMode property of your control:
if (!DesignMode)
{
//Do production runtime stuff
}
Note that this won't work in your constructor because the components haven't been initialized yet.
When running a project, its name is appended with ".vshost".
So, I use this:
public bool IsInDesignMode
{
get
{
Process p = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
bool result = false;
if (p.ProcessName.ToLower().Trim().IndexOf("vshost") != -1)
result = true;
p.Dispose();
return result;
}
}
It works for me.
I'm not sure if running in debug mode counts as real, but an easy way is to include an if statement in your code that checkes for System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached.
If you created a property that you don't need at all at design time, you can use the DesignerSerializationVisibility attribute and set it to Hidden. For example:
protected virtual DataGridView GetGrid()
{
throw new NotImplementedException("frmBase.GetGrid()");
}
[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]
public int ColumnCount { get { return GetGrid().Columns.Count; } set { /*Some code*/ } }
It stopped my Visual Studio crashing every time I made a change to the form with NotImplementedException() and tried to save. Instead, Visual Studio knows that I don't want to serialize this property, so it can skip it. It only displays some weird string in the properties box of the form, but it seems to be safe to ignore.
Please note that this change does not take effect until you rebuild.
We use the following code in UserControls and it does the work. Using only DesignMode will not work in your app that uses your custom user controls as pointed out by other members.
public bool IsDesignerHosted
{
get { return IsControlDesignerHosted(this); }
}
public bool IsControlDesignerHosted(System.Windows.Forms.Control ctrl)
{
if (ctrl != null)
{
if (ctrl.Site != null)
{
if (ctrl.Site.DesignMode == true)
return true;
else
{
if (IsControlDesignerHosted(ctrl.Parent))
return true;
else
return false;
}
}
else
{
if (IsControlDesignerHosted(ctrl.Parent))
return true;
else
return false;
}
}
else
return false;
}
Basically the logic above boils down to:
public bool IsControlDesignerHosted(System.Windows.Forms.Control ctrl)
{
if (ctrl == null) return false;
if (ctrl.Site != null && ctrl.Site.DesignMode) return true;
return IsControlDesignerHosted(ctrl.Parent);
}
If you are in a form or control you can use the DesignMode property:
if (DesignMode)
{
DesignMode Only stuff
}
I found the DesignMode property to be buggy, at least in previous versions of Visual Studio. Hence, I made my own using the following logic:
Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName.ToLower().Trim() == "devenv";
Kind of a hack, I know, but it works well.
System.ComponentModel.Component.DesignMode == true
To solve the problem, you can also code as below:
private bool IsUnderDevelopment
{
get
{
System.Diagnostics.Process process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess();
if (process.ProcessName.EndsWith(".vshost")) return true;
else return false;
}
}
Here's another one:
//Caters only to thing done while only in design mode
if (App.Current.MainWindow == null){ // in design mode }
//Avoids design mode problems
if (App.Current.MainWindow != null) { //applicaiton is running }
After testing most of the answers here, unfortunately nothing worked for me (VS2015).
So I added a little twist to JohnV's answer, which didn't work out of the box, since DesignMode is a protected Property in the Control class.
First I made an extension method which returns the DesignMode's Property value via Reflection:
public static Boolean GetDesignMode(this Control control)
{
BindingFlags bindFlags = BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Static;
PropertyInfo prop = control.GetType().GetProperty("DesignMode", bindFlags);
return (Boolean)prop.GetValue(control, null);
}
and then I made a function like JohnV:
public bool HostedDesignMode
{
get
{
Control parent = Parent;
while (parent != null)
{
if (parent.GetDesignMode()) return true;
parent = parent.Parent;
}
return DesignMode;
}
}
This is the only method that worked for me, avoiding all the ProcessName mess, and while reflection should not be used lightly, in this case it did all the difference! ;)
EDIT:
You can also make the second function an extension method like this:
public static Boolean IsInDesignMode(this Control control)
{
Control parent = control.Parent;
while (parent != null)
{
if (parent.GetDesignMode())
{
return true;
}
parent = parent.Parent;
}
return control.GetDesignMode();
}
For WPF (hopefully this is useful for those WPF people stumbling upon this question):
if (System.ComponentModel.DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode(new DependencyObject()))
{
}
GetIsInDesignMode requires a DependencyObject. If you don't have one, just create one.
/// <summary>
/// Whether or not we are being run from the Visual Studio IDE
/// </summary>
public bool InIDE
{
get
{
return Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName.ToLower().Trim().EndsWith("vshost");
}
}
Here's a flexible way that is adaptable to where you compile from as well as whether or not you care which mode you're in.
string testString1 = "\\bin\\";
//string testString = "\\bin\\Debug\\";
//string testString = "\\bin\\Release\\";
if (AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.Contains(testString))
{
//Your code here
}